Protect your Google account when playing Pokémon Go
Before playing Pokemon GO, follow the following article to prevent hackers from stealing data on your Google account.
In fact, information related to Pokémon GO games is " storming " on social networks and has been a lot of interest in recent times.
Although until now, this game has not been released widely in the world, but there are quite a lot of people trying to download this game from websites on the internet.
And before you can walk around the city and catch your favorite animals, users need to log in to this game with their Pokemon account or use their own Google account .
However, because the server system that provides Pokemon accounts is overloaded, most users have switched to logging in with their Google account and allowing this game to have access to Google services, such as Gmail, OneDrive, .
As recommended by several security vendors, hackers can take advantage of downloading this game from unclear origins and access to Google accounts in order to steal data from users .
Realizing this problem, Niantic (Pokemon GO developer) promised to release the fixes soon and some reduced access to Google accounts to a minimum.
However, instead of waiting for the next update from the manufacturer, you can protect yourself with the following simple steps:
First, use any browser available on your computer and access the link here.
Then log in to the Google account you use to log in to Pokemon GO.
In the interface that appears, click Go Release Pokemon in the list of applications. At this point, simply click the Remove button, then click OK.
From now on, you can stop administering Pokemon Go .
However, in some tests, this game may turn off unexpectedly or hang up the next time you launch, or ask you to log in again from the beginning. But in fact, this is still better than your Google account accidentally becomes a good prey for hackers.
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